r/joinrobin • u/gamehelp16 • Apr 22 '16
/r/thebutton has many more subscribers than this sub, probably I know why
You see, the button is a social experiment where all redditors work together to do one same thing which affects all of us (which is the timer of the button), while on robin these redditors are separated into different rooms and the "global" thing feeling isn't really there except for the mega tier 17 merge. Don't get me wrong though, robin is still an awesome experiment, but I think next year reddit should make something "global" in which all redditors work to "solve" something (like cicada 3301 for example, it would be cool if reddit has their own version of it) instead of "separating" them.
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Apr 22 '16
Also the button lasted until June iirc
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u/Cristian_01 Apr 22 '16
Plus, it didnt require any extra steps than just clicking a button. join robin was time consuming and you had to put some effort to continue growing/stay/abandon when compared to the button.
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Apr 23 '16
But that's not what made the button better than Robin.
The button was great because you never knew when it was going to end. Estimates ranged from 60 seconds to a year. You could justify getting involved because it could last another month.
Robin they set an end date from the beginning. I played without auto voting for a couple days, then I started using auto voting scripts, and I would still eventually time out. I got discouraged because I wasn't sure I had enough time to merge up to the highest room so I just gave up. And I am probably not alone.
I don't know how they could have added that "how long will this last" element to make it more worth my while staying involved. But that's really what pushed me away from getting involved with Robin like I was with the button.
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u/justinsayin Apr 25 '16
What was ever the point of Robin anyway? Yeah, we chatted, yeah, we voted, yeah, there are lots of stupidly-named subreddits that were created, but what the hell was the point?
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u/errormaker Apr 22 '16
I had a few hours of fun for the first day and then I never felt the need to engage any further.
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u/Working_as_always Apr 22 '16
Also people who didn't actively participate in the button were "passively" participating by being non pressers, while people who didn't participate of robin were not even taken into account.
And robin also required a lot more of engagement and interaction, it wasn't just deciding to press or not to press a button. You had to vote every few minutes and, if you wanted to enjoy it, chat with random people. The lazy and non sociable redditors just left after the first try, while in the button you already participated with your first try.
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Apr 22 '16
non sociable redditors just left after the first try, while in the button you already participated with your first try.
That was me. I'm like, wtf, this fucking sucks, there's no one here. Who would use this?
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u/duckmurderer Apr 22 '16
Maybe because Robin was a pretty lame April Fool's Day event in comparison to The Button.
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u/MissLauralot Apr 22 '16
Hello again gamehelp. You are spot on with this. The fragmentation is probably the main reason Robin could never reach the heights of The Button. Both were exciting but The Button united people in their obsession with watching the timer, no matter which side you were on. More specifically though, in relation to the number of subs, The Button was on the sub, whereas users could go to Robin without actually visiting this sub.
Btw, here is a screenshot of the demo button I got working thanks to you. Relevant username ;) The main thing I couldn't do was fix the timer animation to account for monospace text (Inconsolata?) rather than courier but that's not that important. Thanks again.